The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-26


money in Australia. On Harris rec
ommendation he was engaged He
seems to have known enough about his
business to order twenIy stamp mill
from this city. but didn't know enough
to set il NJ. For this job Ellsworth
was dispatched to Trina from the Un'
ion Iron works He is quiet, taciturn'
business-like man, and just took the
Chinese fancy. They discharged
Beecher and put Ellsworth in his place.
He informed them that If he was to
run the Chez Foo mines he must have
American machinery and American as
sistants. They gave him carte blanche,
and thus, MS said, he has sailed from
San Francisco this afternoon with o
staff of five assistants and complete
outfit of steam engines, hosting ma
chinery, pumps, air compressors, drills
cages, railroad track, and tools OF al
kinds.
The mines which Ellsworth is going
to exploit lie some l40 miles inlanc
from Chefoo, about 700 miles from
Shanghai, and perhaps 25O miles from
Tientsin. The formation is tho same
as in the Sierra in this state. The ore u
found in the quartz. II turns out about
$50 worth of bullion to the ton. In the
ore are streaks of sulpburets which
will run $3.50 tu 5000 to the ton. But
in China 800 ore. ii there is plenty oil
it, and it can be easily hoisted and
taken in the mill. is Us good II thing as
any man need want. There ure mines
on the Comstock which are handling
$40 ore without loss. with miners
wages fixed ut "a Il day by the cast
iron rules of The Miners union Labor
in China is worth not over ID cents .
day, and the miners are not as part GU
lar about the length of the shafts ms
they are on Mount Davidson.
I'm China the fee of all real estate il
in the government Cinnamon hole
their lands and houses by virtue OF re
ceipts from the government specifying
that they have paid their taxes. Thu'
no legal process was necessary to es'
tabish the government title to the
Chefoo mines. When it was resoivec
to work them Mr.. Owyang Ming. II DIS
tinguished Chinaman whose ancestors
had been in the publ serv CO before
the Christian era, was recalled from the
consulate generalship of San Francisco
and was placed in charge. 1t is prob
ably to his American experience tina
the engagement of Nj Ellsworth anc
party is due
1t is pretty difficult 10 set limit tt
the possible consequences of genera
resumption of gold mining in China.
Unless Mr.. Ellsworth IS much mis-
taken, China is richer in gold than any
other country known. The people have
been washing gravel for gold for fifty
centuries or more, but the veins ART
comparatively virgin. And never did
n nation need gold so badly as Chin'
does now to pay for her fleet her forii
fications her railroads and telegraphs.
and the other improvements which she
must have.
II would seem, however, that If the
Chinese mines are to be worked they
must be worked by foreigners. Fol
manual labor in the mines Cinnamon
will answer very we'll But it will be s
long tine before Chinanan is found
who is competent TO manage mine.
And of all foreigners the most suitable
are Americans. No Europeans have
the experience necessary 10 enable them
to deal with ores like those of Chefoo.
The most competent of the European
miners are the Freiburg graduates, buI
in practice on the Comstock they have
not been found worth more than Corn.
ish shift bosses. Our great mines are
all handled by Americans or by persons
who, though born abroad, have lived
so long here as TO be really Americans.
1t would probably be so with the mines
of China.
II few score of mines in the foot
hills of Shantung, Khan Su, Che Kiang
and Fo Kien should begin to output
forty or fifty millions of gold and silver
per year through American manage
ment and With the aid of American
machinery the event could not but bt
followed bv important commercial and
political consequences.
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